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Ah yes but it is mainly because many languages borrow C-style syntax so you can understand it without many brain gymnastics.

You are correct, however. I did try learning Japanese and was just as unsuccessful at that as with Perl; I did maintain an old Perl codebase at one point and learned enough to get by but I would never jump at the opportunity to do it again!




How much of the reference docs and available books did you read? Or did you, like many, just read code and hunt for the bits that weren't obvious?




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